Government effectiveness in Oceania

16 countries in Oceania, 2025. Unit: score 0-100. World ranking →

First in the ranking
90.7 /100
New Zealand
Median country
52.6 /100
half above, half below
Range
35.0 to 90.7
Solomon Islands - New Zealand

How to read it

Across 16 countries in Oceania, the highest value is in New Zealand (90.7 /100) and the lowest in Solomon Islands (35.0 /100).

The median country is at 52.6 /100: half are above, half below.

Government Effectiveness (GE) captures perceptions of the quality of public services, the civil service, policy formulation and implementation, and the credibility of a government’s decisions. Governance score is a linear transformation of the governance estimate using hypothetical worst-case and base-case countries. It is an absolute score ranging from 0-100. Larger values correspond to better governance.

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Source: World Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators · licence

Government effectiveness over time

/100

Ranking of countries

2025
In chart Share of the highest value
1New Zealand90.7
2Australia88.2
3Guam77.2
4American Samoa70.1
5Fiji63.2
6Samoa56.5
7Palau54.5
8Nauru54.0
9Tonga51.1
10Federated States of Micronesia50.8
11Marshall Islands45.1
12Kiribati44.9
13Tuvalu40.0
14Papua New Guinea37.8
15Vanuatu37.0
16Solomon Islands35.0
World Bank, WGI · 2025 · CC BY 4.0 Source and licence

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